Heidegger with Derrida: Being Written

✍ Scribed by Dror Pimentel

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 303
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Heidegger with Derrida: Being Written attempts, for the first time, to think Heidegger's philosophy through the lens of Derrida's logocentric thesis, according to which speech has, throughout the history of metaphysics, been given primacy over writing. The book offers a detailed account of Derrida's arguments about the debasement of writing, an account that leads to a new definition of writing, conceiving it epistemically, rather than linguistically. Heidegger's analysis of the gaze and critique of the modern subject are shown to have logocentric features. This surprising conclusion entails that Heidegger is well within the metaphysical tradition, which he labored so intently to overcome. The book sheds new light on the philosophical roots of Heidegger’s involvement with Nazism, arguing that his hierarchical thinking--the hallmark of logocentrism and metaphysics—condones violent differentiation between the ‘proper’ race and the Other.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
Introduction: The Question of Writing (Dror Pimentel)....Pages 1-8
Being Proper (Dror Pimentel)....Pages 9-46
Representation and Its Limits (Dror Pimentel)....Pages 47-96
The Dangers of Writing (Dror Pimentel)....Pages 97-131
Presence Under Erasure (Dror Pimentel)....Pages 133-150
The Politics of Writing (Dror Pimentel)....Pages 151-180
Being Written (Dror Pimentel)....Pages 181-212
Writing and The Politics of Race (Dror Pimentel)....Pages 213-255
Derrida’s Avoidance (Dror Pimentel)....Pages 257-273
Conclusion: The Ghost of Metaphysics (Dror Pimentel)....Pages 275-286
Back Matter ....Pages 287-297

✦ Subjects

Philosophy; Existentialism; Philosophy of Man; Postmodern Literature